An Introduction to Atmospheric Gravity Waves (International Geophysics, Volume 8

Carmen J. Nappo, "An Introduction to Atmospheric Gravity Waves (International Geophysics, Volume 85)"

Academic Press; Book and CD-Rom edition (August 26, 2002) | ISBN:0125140827 | 279 pages | PDF | 3,7 Mb

Gravity waves exist in all types of geophysical fluids, such as lakes, oceans, and atmospheres. They play an important role in redistributing energy at disturbances, such as mountains or seamounts and they are routinely studied in meteorology and oceanography, particularly simulation models, atmospheric weather models, turbulence, air pollution, and climate research.

An Introduction to Atmospheric Gravity Waves provides readers with a working background of the fundamental physics and mathematics of gravity waves, and introduces a wide variety of applications and numerous recent advances.

Nappo provides a concise volume on gravity waves with a lucid discussion of current observational techniques and instrumentation.